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Mercury now lets customers work with accounts from a terminal while its MCP server gives AI tools read-only financial context. Ryan Wiggins, Mercury's VP of Product, says early users are building reports, burn-rate views and invoice flows before payments enter the picture. Ramp and Slash show the wider shift: banking is becoming a permissioned work surface for AI tools.
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Repo Radar tracks rtk, GitNexus, memsearch, rlm, and Hugging Face ml-intern as builders push agents past chat into stateful work: a Rust proxy cutting LLM token consumption 60 to 90 percent, a browser knowledge graph for code, a Markdown and Milvus memory layer, a recursive language model inference library, and an open-source ML engineer that reads papers and ships models. Memory and inference cost shape this week.
Matt Pocock's Claude Code skills repo turned a private .claude folder into one of GitHub's fastest-rising AI coding artifacts this week. The live count has already outrun the 36K-star video that made it visible, and the repo's small markdown files show why developers are packaging agent behavior as shared process instead of one-off prompts. The deeper shift is not in the codebase, but in what teams now maintain beside it. That makes the count a surface signal.
HybridClaw is trying to turn the Hermes and OpenClaw agent wave into something companies can run without guessing what a bot just did. The German-built runtime has only a fraction of Hermes' GitHub attention, but its pitch is different: encrypted credentials, approvals, audit logs, migration paths and EU-hosted workflows for the dull work inside finance, support and BI teams. The open question is whether customer deployments prove the control story.
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A cold Claude Code session loses 50.6% of its context to overhead and reserve before you type. One flag halves daily spend. Claude burns 3-4x the tokens of Codex for a 1.4-point quality delta. Tools to cut AI costs are free and mature. Almost nobody installs them. Here is why.
Karpathy's LLM Wiki thread drew 16M views. His Gist with zero code got 5,000 stars. The pattern, a hands-on tutorial, the ecosystem, and why the "idea file" may matter more than the wiki.
Five courtroom scenes from Musk v. Altman show the AI industry's grand mythology shrinking into subpoenas, soft balls, yellow legal pads and one judge trying to keep the apocalypse off the record.
Elon Musk and Sam Altman's OpenAI trial in Oakland has already turned into a theater of small absurdities: a judge cutting off extinction talk, Musk trying to object like counsel, xAI becoming the awkward exhibit, photographers chasing glass-door glimpses, and Jared Birchall bringing a $97.4 billion bid back into the room.
